What's your favorite game bird to eat?

I always think I like dove the best. Until I eat quail.

wild Turkey

Fried chicken

Dove and turkey. Oh, forgot about pheasant. That's pretty darn good as well.

Pheasant

Chukar, wrapped in bacon and slow cooked in a smoker using pecan wood. Are you hungry now!

Yes I am.

Dove and Chukar. It's a toss up.

sandhill cranes "ribeye of the sky".

Quail is good, but too small. Chukar taste like quail, but bigger so that's better. Not a fan of pheasant at all. Turkey is good, dove is good, but I like ducks the best.

So, best game bird by far I've had is medium rare wood duck.

Still haven't had sandhill crane though

That's something I need to try too. A couple of my buddies went on a sandhill hunt over 10 years ago and they're still talking about it.

Grouse is the best I've ever had.

I like Sandhill Crane but I'd take a mallard on the grill over a crane any day of the week.

Pheasant marinated in Italian dressing, wrapped in bacon, then slowly cooked over mesquite.

Pheasant, quail, chukar, grouse, turkey, woodcock and dove.

I heard prairie chicken is tasty but I've never even seen one to shoot.

Dove.... teal are right up there also...

Have only had dove so I would say Dove.

dove and pheasant

Roasted pheasant with orange glaze

Wild Turkey! I don't think you can beat this recipe for wild turkey... http://honest-food.net/2012/05/15/turkey-parmesan-recipe/

Quail would be next on the list.

I've heard Sandhill crane is very good as well

Dove....hands down for me.

Quail, fried with gravy.

Wild turkey. Hands down.

Dove

ring-necks or Mergs... cant quite decide on one!

Chicken.

Nothing like wild quail. period.

Least favorite- pheasant. Best way to cook it is in the trash can.

Actually, crock pot or chicken fried not bad- we smoked some in SD few years ago in bacon- was good

Ruffed Grouse hands down, Pheasant/Chukar/Huns/Quail next and Prairie Chicken is dead last. I also like Dove, duck and goose, as I have acquired the taste. I put Sandhill Crane between quail and dove....kind of where I have Wild Turkey. Although, Crane eats more like a red steak and less like bird.

Waterfowl as follows:

Wood duck
Teal
Mallard
Pintail
Widgeon
Gadwall
Canvasback

I've been eating a lot of crow lately, so I must like it.

Doves! Of course.......

I love a good duck or goose with andouille gumbo as long as the birds are rendered first. I also love dove but you'll starve to death eating those little bastards. Quail is delicious but we have so few around here when I do get a few covies around the place I have too much fun "talking to them" in the evening off the back porch to hunt them. Sandhill Crane is probably my favorite eating bird, but can no longer hunt them on my place. We see tons of them but are just inside their protected zone.

Quail

Quail here or pheasant....Duck if it is in a gumbo.....

pheasant and quail are my favorites, nothing better imo than when I visit family in KS and we grill up some pheasant and quail after a long day of hunting.

Walter

All of the above are my favorite s too but did anybody ever know that in Germany the grey heron was special?
Only if a king had a banquet they would serve it....
There are still ways to find out about preparing such a bird.

Funny Germans

Yuck. I can't eat any birds that eat fish. My grandad made me eat a cormorant that I mistakenly shot. I've never made that mistake again.

How was it prepared?

Dove

Everybody talking about how good dove are, then they cover it in bacon...c'mon, if it was that good, it shouldn't need bacon.

Although I dove love bacon with a hint of dove too.

Or they have never eaten chicken fried turkey breast. Roll some thinly sliced or beaten turkey breast in bread crumbs and fry in in a little olive oil.... You'll never convince me dove is better than that!!!

I do like dove but can't come close to wild turkey or quail.

Bacon not needed... same with teal ill just marinade them then slow cook um on the grill.... perfection

Fried quail!

chukar and quail

I have only had dove and duck. I like dove the best.

yep.

Fried or grilled quail. Thats the shizzle me nizzle. Bacon wrapped dove on the pit is great as well.
also like a good fried chicken and turkey.

Hell I cant choose

Light- Quail, pheasant

Dark- Snipe, dove

And I promise you'll not be able to tell the difference between snipe and dove (prepared Texas style) but snipe could be slightly better. Bet dat!!

Coot go well in a gumbo but, it's tough to beat a smoked dove breast wrapped in bacon.

I haven't had quail in 20 years....but I remember it being good, and I have been raising 40 bobwhites in a run and they're about 20 weeks now....I have too many males, and courting is about to start, so this week I'm going to knock off a few males and hopefully find out that quail is my favorite!

X2

Smoked, bacon wrapped quail can't be beat!

You mean like this?

Sandhill crane
Teal
Quail
Dove
Woodsuck

Pheasant, but I've never had sandhill crane!

1. Quail
2. Dove
3. Turkey
4. Pheasant
5. Teal

Yuck on duck

1. Chukar
2. Quail
3. Pheasant
4. Dove

Wild mallard/Canvasback seared with the skin on and of course bacon wrapped dubs.

Ya know ours is prob dove, then wood duck however last year we had a whole canada goose. Wow. It was amazing.

Can't ever find any quail so no go on that.

Just killed and cleaned a few extra males that I had in my bobwhite run this morning....quail is going to be my favorite tonight!

And this is how I got down tonight.....

Oh no you juss diint!